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title: At the same time it must not be thought that Mr. MacRitchie's views… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time it must not be thought that Mr. MacRitchie's views explain all fairy tales, or that his identifications of Finns = Fenians = Fairies = Sidhe = “Pechs” = Picts, will necessarily be accepted. Who acts: views, MacRitchie, Mr.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. 
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 80

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At the same time it must not be thought that Mr. MacRitchie's views explain all fairy tales, or that his identifications of Finns = Fenians = Fairies = Sidhe = “Pechs” = Picts, will necessarily be accepted.

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**Who acts:** views, MacRitchie, Mr. · **What happens:** not think, explain, accept, view, identify · **To what, where:** re-capture, fairy tales, identifications, Finns

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (views, MacRitchie, Mr.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:71:80
# text = At the same time it must not be thought that Mr. MacRitchie's views explain all fairy tales, or that his identifications of Finns = Fenians = Fairies = Sidhe = “Pechs” = Picts, will necessarily be accepted.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	MacRitchie	MacRitchie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	identifications	identification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Finns	finn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Fenians	Fenian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Sidhe	Sidhe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	34	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Pechs	Pech	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
36	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Picts	pict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | must · passive |  | re-capture |  |  | time |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | MacRitchie  Mr.'s views | all fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** | future · passive |  | Mr.'s identifications of Finns and Fenians and Fairies and Sidhe and Pechs and Picts |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **view** |  | MacRitchie  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **identify** |  | Mr. | Finns |  |  |  |  | nom identification «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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